Sri Parthasarathi thunai Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha Pranams, According to what adiyen has heard, after the kalapam when SriRanganatha returned to SriRangam the locals have already established another Ranganatha Vigraha and claimed him to be the original. At that time they searched for a person who lived before the kalapam who could identify Ranganatha and that they found only a dhobi who was very old and even blind due to age. He used to wash the clothes of SriRanganatha and he said that he could find out perumal just with the smell of his vastram and when perumal's vastram was got to him he smelled and said "NamPerumal Evare" and after which Azhagiya Manavalan was called Namperumal. If Swamy Desika was alive during that time there could have been no one better than him to identify Namperumal. So by this time he should have attained Paramapadam. Only after this the rituals in the temple was organised as before and that was a major work done by Sri Manavala Mamunigal. This is what adiyen has heard from scholars if there are errors i beg the pardon of learned scholars of the group. Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai Sumithra Varadarajan.
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